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perhaps he had help from ben and/or yoda.
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doubt it. that would dumb anyway.
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i dont see anything about immortality
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he said he could prevent others from dying. not bring them back from the dead, and especially not becoming immortal spirits able to communicate with the living.
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it's a baseless assumption though. more so than assuming that palpatine survived his fall and escaped the death star. force users have a knack for surving long falls, after all. at least that theory would have that tiny bit of arguable ground. would be awful though. perhaps more awful than even ghost palpatine.
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He had to have learned it pretty darn late because the OT makes it very clear that he has no idea what it is that Ben has done.
Calling this a PT inconsistency is very unfair though- it's an OT issue. It's absolutely consistent with the OT that Anakin has no idea about it in the Prequels.
In the end, he does it because it is stylistically right that he does. The Force is mysterious like that.
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Anakin was able to pull it off because he saw Obi do it. Up to that point there aren't any recorded eye witnesses of such ability, maybe by looking at it he realized he could replicate it.
Well, the problem is that the PT started explaining it. And now it doesn't work.
It's the basic problem of the PT... it ruined a lot of the OT's mysticism and backstory.
Welp, I don't believe you should really need special training to become a Force ghost (plenty didn't in the EU), Yoda didn't even receive as much really, he just went on a spiritual journey that led him to accept himself "and let go".
I think if Vader has achieved some kind of spiritual zen he could have become a Force ghost by himself.
Well, why didn't anyone before QGJ achieve that then? I suppose there have been plenty of zen Jedi in the thousand generations they were guardians of peace and justice.